Museum Exhibit Honors Pepperell House Legacy at York Institute
A bicentennial exhibit at York Institute Museum in Saco showcases Pepperell House furniture, including a John Singleton Copley portrait, with items loaned from Joseph Frost and family after Gov Lowley's veto of a $175000 purchase. The display features the 1745 silver, a Fort Knox iron chest from 1588, and a 1760 Chippendale hunt table, with Phase II overseen by Melvin Watts and expanded soon.
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Peg Welch
James Lowley
Pepperell
Kittery Point
Maine
York County
York Institute Museum
Saco
Sir William Pepperall
Joseph Frost
Frost
Saco Museum
Farnsworth Museum
Rockland
Sir William
John Singleton Copley
Ralph Hawkes
Museum Board of Directors
Melvin Watts
Currier Gallery
Manchester
N.H
City of
London
Louisburg
Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia
Pepperell Mfg. Co
Biddeford
Peppet
Fort Knox
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Institute
John Wentworth
New Hampshire
England
George
Kittery
George Washington
Charles Granger
Rembrandt Peale
York Institute
Thomas Hutchinson
Massachusetts
William Pepperell
Stephen Muskie
U S Firm Faces Belgian Production Strain Over F16 Deal
In Belgium a bid by General Dynamics to supply fighter jets under the F16 program faces pushback over offset promises and high costs. Belgian firms cite inflation and wages as key obstacles to meeting the planned 80 percent domestic spending. Subcontracting shifts to Denmark and Norway are noted as costs rise.
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Clyde H. Farnsworth
New York Times
Paris
United States
France
Sweden
Belgium
General Dynamics Corp
General Dynamics
Netherlands
Norway
Denmark
Fort Worth
United States Air Force
Congress
Andre Spehl
Societe Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aeronautique
Charleroi
Saben
Bac
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Hughes Aircraft Co
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Fabrique National
Pentagon
Saco
U.S
GOP Delegates Elected During Caucus At Beach
Republicans in Old Orchard Beach caucused to elect a town committee and 10 delegates to the Republican State Convention in Augusta on April 30 and May 1, along with district conventions. Delegates are not bound to candidates. Alternates named, town committee listed, and platform planks urged including tax shifts, local control of education, returnable beverage container bill, and roll call votes on pay raises.
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Old Orchard Beach
Augusta
Republican Committee
Cynthia Michaud
Charles Day
Sandra Manduca
Alfred Brune
Effie Ross
Leslie Wyman
John Bird
James Marshall
Phillip Lacroix
John Litchnett
Clarence Roberts
Katherine Whitman
E. Emerson
Bethany Anderson
Norma Baker
Dorothea Dube
Olga Dayton
DOB Republicans
Cecille McNeil
York County
GOP
OOB
Second-Best Is Better in New Hampshire Primary
In New Hampshire ahead of the presidential primary, candidates avoid predicting victory while stressing balanced forecasts. Ford forecasts a win against Reagan, who aims for about 45 percent. Democratic contenders Muskie Carter Udall and Bayh project top-three finishes as they manage expectations for later contests.
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Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Rogers C.B. Morton
Reagan
James Lake
White House
Harry S. Truman
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Truman
California
Manchester
Eugene J. McCarthy
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Estes Kefauver
Edmund S. Muskie
George McGovern
Morris K. Udall
Arizona
Sargent Shriver
Udall
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Sen
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Pool Land Talks May Reopen With City Negotiations
After two years of litigation the Pool Beach Association seeks to restart talks with Biddeford. In a letter to city solicitor Marcel Viger the association offers to transfer title to a shorefront lot with right of way in exchange for specified considerations. Mayor Lucien Dutremble says the offer mirrors a proposal made two years ago before negotiations stalled.
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Pool Beach Association
Biddeford
Marcel Viger
Vincent McKusick
Lucien Dutremble
Association
Beachfront land sale sparks city renegotiation talks
The mayor sees a chance to save the city 250000 on 5.4 acres of beachfront property taken under former mayor Gilbert Boucher. The city may counter or reject offers from the association while retaining frontage and parking, not requiring remaining land. The property remains owned by the city as talks continue.
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Gilbert Boucher
Ench
Lebanese gunman seizes Canadian Embassy in Beirut
A Lebanese gunman claiming he was cheated out of a Canadian island by his wife, along with six followers, seized the Canadian Embassy and held more than 20 hostages. After hours of negotiations eight women were freed and escorted away in a red Palestinian Armed Struggle Command patrol vehicle.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Palestinian Armed Struggle Command
Ha ha hail jet crash injures three in Vermont
The Burlington International Airport crash left three New Jersey men injured with two in serious condition. The twin engine Newark bound plane struck a wing during landing and cracked midsection, skidded belly first into a snow bank near the terminal. Pilot Gerald Imelia 30 Summerville and co pilot Leo Geib 51 Greenbrook were hospitalized with compression back fractures.
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Burlington, Vt
Burlington International
New Jersey
Newark
N.J
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Hope For Morement Corp
Beach
Ding
Inside the Journal
New England
Abby
Art Descoteaux
Biddeford High School
Dick Danforth
New Britain, Conn
New Britain
Edith Northrop
Edda Northrop Gibney
Windsor
Dith
Andrew’s House Healthcare
Edda
New Britain Memorial Hospital
Edith
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